§ Mr. Crouchasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will upgrade hospital social workers to parity with social workers employed by local authorities.
§ Mr. AlisonThe question of the appropriate relationship between the pay of hospital and local authority social workers is one of the matters before the inquiry into the work of probation officers and social workers referred to by my hon. Friend the former Minister of State for Employment on 3rd March, 1972.—[Vol. 832, c.195–6.]